"homoglyphic" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Etymology: From homoglyph + -ic. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|homoglyph|ic}} homoglyph + -ic Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} homoglyphic (not comparable)
  1. Being, involving, or using the same or similar glyph(s), that is, homoglyph(s), for different characters (as for example in fonts where the letter O and the digit 0, or the letter I and the digit 1, are visually indistinguishable or nearly so). Tags: not-comparable Related terms: OCR, optical character recognition, scanno
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